There's an expression in Italian that I can say but not write, that translates to "a face that needs smacking".

If ever there was a face that needed smacking, it's Gerard.  Do you suppose James Storm got lip-cramp from keeping that expression up?   

Just looking at the first photo (upper left) in the montage.......does it remind anyone else of Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World"?

Wonder if he and Charles Deleware Tate were drinking buddies?

I have to share this sorry story with all the librarians (and bibliophiles) on this forum:

This afternoon my daughter and a friend went to the district library.  My daughter, unable to remember the name of the author of "Dracula" asked one of the people at the desk, who answered without hesitation "Mary Shelley".  My daughter looked at the woman, said "I think that was "Frankenstein" and got a dirty look for her trouble.

Meanwhile, her friend asked another person at the desk for the name of the author of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" and was told "That's Oscar Wilde....over in the American Literature section."

When did it become acceptable for clerks to pass themselves off as librarians?  (Please, don't let them actually BE the librarians!) 

...bears a really freaky resemblance to Charlie Chan.

You don't suppose it was the look they were going for, do you..... 

When you're looking at the Home page, at the "Cousins Online" section, you see the names of the 'visible' listed.

If you click on Home,  and refresh the page, the order of the names frequently changes....even though no one has left or joined in the meantime.

If there are more or less names, I can understand the order changing...but what makes it change when it's still the same group of names?  What determines the order in which the names appear?

Yes....I have too much time on my hands. 

I see we have bats. 

Where, exactly, is our belfry?

....Not that RT Angelique couldn't screw up royally when she tried! 

But honestly, poppets are Witchcraft 101!....any Witch who can't prick a poppet without killing the intended victim needs to hang up her    and go back for lessons.

...on his NECK, instead of his wrist ....but they still didn't allow it to take place on camera.  What nonsense.

The vampire legend was always as much about sex as it was about the supernatural.  The earliest Vampire movies were blatantly sexual, thanks to the fact that they came before the creation of the Hayes Office (which began creating rules about 'morality' in the movies) and the onset of censoring.  Even the publication of the original novel caused Bram Stoker more trouble because of the 'seduction' of the victims than the fact that the Vampire was a demon.

But never mind all that.....and never mind the fact that we've watched Barnabas feast on maidens, hookers and cousins.....at least we were spared the shocking image of Willie....er, Will Loomis, in the Vampire's Embrace!!